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<h1>8 Principles That Will Make You a More Effective Leader</h1>
Christine Tao is the co-founder & CEO at Sounding Board, a Silicon Valley startup redefining how organizations are developing their leaders. Her extraordinarily rapid career growth to executive management in the media, mobile and tech sectors of Silicon Valley became her inspiration for founding Sounding Board. As she began to manage larger teams and be responsible for growing revenues, it became clear that she needed a “sounding board” to coach her on the development of her leadership skills. That’s where her Sounding Board co-founder, Lori Mazan came on the scene. A seasoned executive coach focused on leadership development, Lori coached Christine on real-world leadership skills that had a direct impact on business outcomes. Based on Professional development and impactful experience with leadership development, Christine was driven to make leadership development coaching accessible to people at all levels of the organization.

Are your actions performed with a deep sense of honesty? To be a successful leader in a business, and in life, everything you say and do has to be transparent and true. Notice the choice of words of the goal – efficiently effective. Priority One of leadership and the goal of any organization is to be effective. This means the focus of development, of all efforts, must first be on meeting the predefined goal. Once that is guaranteed, then, and only then, we must turn our attention to efficiently accomplishing the task.6.

As a founder of two major business ventures, a candidate for California governor, and author of 15 books, Arianna Huffington has a wee bit of experience with setting off in a new direction. Each of these endeavors was a calculated risk involving taking action based on incomplete information and educated guesses, with people’s livelihoods riding on every decision. It wouldn’t be a leadership article without Abraham Lincoln, amiright? Aside from, y’know, keeping his country together, ol’ Abe is known for being into diversity of thought before it was cool.

Read on to learn about how the Eight Principles of Ethical Leadership can be effectively applied to the school environment. Make a deliberate effort to apply these concepts in your day-to-day activities, and you will begin to see a difference in your ability to be a leader. Learn to give directions clearly and to communicate your command directly. It’s far better to know where you stand and what the marching orders are than to be entangled in a quagmire of hearsay and confusion.

By making safety a company value, an organization can drive home the point safety is a top priority. Priorities of organizations can change year to year, but company values do not change as frequently. Never value your success as a leader over that of the individuals you lead.

She led the growth of Tapjoy’s publisher advertising business from 0 to over $100 million in revenues in less than 3 years. Prior to that she led e-commerce partnerships and strategy at YouTube. Christine holds an MBA in Marketing & Operations from Wharton and a BA in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. Servant leaders give more of themselves by self-will, rather than by obligation. This may seem like a flaw, as many people may perceive. But the truth is, it helps you to grow as a leader.

Before GP Strategies, Tommy spent several years with TTEC Digital where he led the sales team, eventually becoming the regional Learning & Performance practice leader for North America. While managing the P&L and sales team he also led the largest global relationship for the firm . During his time at TTEC, he focused on delivering blended learning solutions that incorporate technology and hands-on training. Finally, there is something called the Choice Distinction. Though technically not a Leadership Principle, the Choice Distinction sets the Principles into motion. Everything in life, with the exception of when life ends, is a choice.

At Drift, we bring a spirit of learning to everything we do. We approach learning as both students and teachers, and are eager to share our discoveries with each other and our customers. We attend monthly lectures from some of the most amazing Drift advisors on the planet. Reading isn’t optional; it’s part of the curriculum. Prior to co-founding Sounding Board, Christine was a Senior Vice President of Developer Relations at Tapjoy, a venture-backed, leading mobile advertising & publishing network.

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